Movies like Hostel
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Hostel (2005)
174K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, psychological, realistic, cult film, macabre ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
torture, gory, psychopath, gore, danger, captivity, deadly, strong violent content, serial murder, crimes, dismemberment, survival, surgery, tourist, torment, friends, sadistic horror, buddies, hostel, confined, dishonesty, destiny, escapades, missing person, strangulation ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam, europe, slovakia, iceland
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Most similar movies to Hostel
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, serious and rough films with plots about brutality, torture, gore, gory, violence, deadly and murder mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Hostel: Hostel: Part II (2007), Saw (2004), Martyrs (2008), Hostel: Part III (2011), Saw VI (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Following a geographical tour of Slovakia, three young American women are lured into a hostel by a handsome young man who sells them to the twisted masters, ties them up and brings upon an unthinkable world of pain.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, rough, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
castration, torture, sadistic horror, strong sexual content, murder, psychopath, tourist, gory, survival, kidnapping, torment, crimes ...
Time:
contemporary, 2000s
Place:
europe, prague, slovakia, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
395K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style:
scary, rough, suspenseful, psychological, twists and turns ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
torture, mind game, serial killer, master criminal, psychopath, insanity, plot twist, game of death, fear, captivity, violent, trapped ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
87K
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Style:
disturbing, twist ending, rough, sinister, twists and turns ...
Plot:
torture, brutality, child abuse, cult, violence, kidnapping, torture chamber, torment, gory, suffering, afterlife, held captive ...
Time:
contemporary, year 1971
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Set in Las Vegas, the film centers on a man who attends his best friend's bachelor party, unaware of an insidious agenda that plays into hunting humans.
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
sadism, kidnapping, murder, psychopath, torture, friends, survival, buddies, captivity, danger, escapades, deadly ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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106K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally ...
Style:
twists and turns, twist ending, scary, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
trap, torture, mind game, game of death, sadism, serial killer, characters murdered one by one, captivity, serial murder, police investigation, strong violent content, terrorizing ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2000s
Place:
europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like Wrong Turn
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
Style:
macabre, scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
cannibalism, sadistic horror, psychopath, torture, human monster, strong violent content, cruelty, survival, sadism, confined, violence, corpse ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
38K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of young backpackers' vacation turns sour when a bus accident leaves them marooned in a remote Brazilian rural area that holds an ominous secret.
Style:
slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jungle, torture, survival, violence, gory, chase, black market, youth, strong violent content, murder, transplant, bondage ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2000s
Place:
brazil, latin america, south america, argentina, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
119K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style:
scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, gothic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, torture, ghost town, small town, wax museum, violence, group of friends, traffic jam, arson, museum ...
Time:
50s, 21st century, 20th century, contemporary, 70s ...
Place:
usa, louisiana, new york, florida, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon ...
Style:
slasher, brutal, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rape, cannibalism, desert, human monster, kidnapping, survival, fear, victim, wilderness, gore, danger, massacre ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, year 2006
Place:
new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
97K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
Style:
slasher, psychological thriller, scary, macabre, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, trapped, survival horror, hidden camera, danger, isolation, hostage, hotel, estranged couple, deception, one night, hostages ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Films like Saw
80K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. ...
Style:
brutal, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, bad ending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids
Plot:
survival, forest, torture, gang, youth, fear, in the woods, chase, murder, weekend, camping, sadism ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
england, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
113K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style:
slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, survival, chase, gory, disfigurement, danger, massacre, manhunt, youth, trap, deadly, friendship ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2000s
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Arkin escapes with his life from the vicious grips of "The Collector" during an entrapment party where he adds beautiful Elena to his "Collection." Instead of recovering from the trauma, Arkin is suddenly abducted from the ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
trap, serial killer, gory, escape, sadistic horror, survival horror, serial murder, mercenary, gore, crimes, masked killer, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A group of delinquents are sent to clean the Blackwell Hotel. Little do they know reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight (Jacobs) has holed away in the rotting hotel. When one of the teens is captured, those who remain -- a group that includes the cop ...
Style:
rough, twists and turns, slasher, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, sadistic horror, hotel, danger, murder, maniac, characters killed one by one, slasher killer, axe, serial murder, religious fanatic ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2000s, 80s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Italy, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, ...
Style:
scary, slasher, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
home invasion, bound and gagged, sadism, evil man, massacre, insanity, brutality, homicidal maniac, sadistic horror, gore, kidnapping, survival ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
france, southern france, south of france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Movies similar to The Hills Have Eyes
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, macabre, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, trap, serial killer, home invasion, gory, torture, deathtrap, held captive, homicidal maniac, masked man, hostage, violence ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Five friends visiting their grandfather's house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
Style:
slasher, banned film, scary, cult film, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, hitchhiker, chainsaw, psychopath, gas station, danger, cannibalism, murder, gory, loss of friend, massacre, woman in danger ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A yuppie couple lost in a swamp seek refuge at an isolated farmhouse only to discover they've jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, slasher ...
Plot:
psychopath, castration, couples, survival, island, torture, danger, brutality, sadism, killer, deadly, confined ...
Time:
contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a ...
Style:
slasher, brutal, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rape, woman in danger, violence, sexualized violence, sadism, torture, violence against women, murder, danger, rage, brutality, rape victim ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished.
Style:
bloody, scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
jungle, cannibal, torture, amazon rainforest, survival, violence, gory, cannibalism, confined, brutality, extreme violence, escape attempt ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 80s
Place:
south america, peru, latin america, chile, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Films like The Green Inferno
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
Style:
scary, slasher, rough, cult film, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, hitchhiker, urban legend, violent, cannibalism, murder, teenage life, youth, serial killer, satanic ritual, psychopath, gory ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 70s, year 1977
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
162K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Evil Dead, the fourth installment of the Evil Dead franchise, serving as both a reboot and as a loose continuation of the series, features Mia, a young woman struggling with sobriety, heads to a remote cabin with a group of friends where the ...
Style:
scary, rough, suspenseful, bloody, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
demons, gory, supernatural, zombie, survival, demon, friendship, blood, curses spells and rituals, isolation, rape, brutality ...
Time:
contemporary, 80s, 21st century, 2010s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.
Style:
sadistic, scatology, macabre, banned film, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual sadism, kidnapping, pervert, psychopath, brutality, bad guy wins, sexual abuse, sexual torture, humiliation, violent death, sadism, torture ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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185K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detective scramble to locate ...
Style:
scary, psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, torture, trap, mind game, sadism, mutilation, surgery, psychopath, master criminal, race against time, game of death, deathtrap ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2000s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Genre: Horror
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a nearby villa, they are wooed into the clutches of a ...
Style:
brutal, suspenseful, macabre, offbeat, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, mad scientist, confined, insanity, crimes, surgeon, experiment gone awry, victim, psychopath, violence, sadistic horror, body horror ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre similar movies
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A gang of ruthless highway killers kidnap a wealthy couple traveling cross country only to shockingly discover that things are not what they seem.
Style:
scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
trap, kidnapping, psychopath, gang, massacre, woman in danger, hostage, torture, serial killer, danger, hunt down, deadly ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather," hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, scary, rough, sadistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, danger, moral dilemma, survival, group of strangers, deathtrap, mind game, confinement indoors, game, threat, sadism, choice ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
241K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw's hand, Detective Eric Matthews begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw with little effort. But for Jigsaw, getting caught is just another part of his plan. Eight ...
Style:
twists and turns, scary, suspenseful, tense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
trap, serial killer, torture, serial murder, mind game, sadism, sadistic horror, antidote, gory, survival, psychopath, insanity ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
112K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, psychological ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
psychopath, halloween, serial killer, teenage life, massacre, sadism, manhunt, mask, vengeance, danger, track down, doctors and patients ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 70s
Place:
midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Based on true events
Style:
suspenseful, rough, slasher, scary, brutal ...
Plot:
torture, brutality, murder, sadism, psychopath, wilderness, crimes, stalking, friendship, maniac, death, bloodbath ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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